Engineering Mechanics:StaticsDescription |
For sophomore-level courses in Mechanics. Designed to provide a more mature, in-depth treatment of mechanics at the undergraduate level - and to offer continuity with, and a smooth transition to, upper-level courses - this text focuses on developing a solid understanding of basic principles rather than rote learning of specific methodologies.  |
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- offers an approach that improves continuity and provides a smooth transition to upper-level courses in other engineering sciences.
- NEW-includes a series of starred sections -Looking Ahead -simplified discussions of topics that will appear in later courses that tie in directly or indirectly to the topic under study - e.g.:
- -After discussing free body diagrams, there is a short section in which the concept and use of the control volume is presented as well as the system concepts that appear in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics.
- -In the chapter on virtual work for particles and rigid bodies, there is a simplified discussion of the displacement methods and force methods for deformable bodies that will show up later in solids courses.
- -After finding the forces for simple trusses, there is a section discussion briefly what has to be done to get displacements.
- encourages working problems from first principles - to minimize excessive mapping from examples and to discourage rote learning of specific methodologies for solving various kinds of specific problems.
during the development of a series of related areas, presents carefully chosen examples to instill continuity in the evolving theory, and then - after these areas have been carefully discussed with rigor - presents the problems.
- includes 400 new problems equally divided between statics and dynamics.
- structures content to enable study of the dynamics of rigid bodies first, and then plane motion - or vice versa.
- revises the chapter on plane motion to provide greater rigor and clarity, particularly in the solving of problems.
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Table of Contents |
(NOTE: Volume I (Statics) is Ch's 1-10; Volume II (Dynamics) is Ch's 11-19).
1. Fundamentals of Mechanics (Review I).
2. Elements of Vector Algebra (Review II).
3. Important Vector Quantities.
4. Equivalent Force Systems.
5. Equations of Equilibrium.
6. Introduction to Structural Mechanics.
7. Friction Forces.
8. Properties of Surfaces.
9. Moments and Products of Inertia.
10. Methods of Virtual Work and Stationary Potential Energy.
11. Kinematics of a Particle-Simple Relative Motion.
12. Particle Dynamics.
13. Energy Methods for Particles.
14. Methods of Momentum for Particles.
15. Kinematics of Rigid Bodies: Relative Motion.
16. Kinetics of Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies.
17. Energy and Impulse-Momentum Methods of Rigid Bodies.
18. Dynamics of General Rigid-Body Motion.
19. Vibrations.
Appendix I: Integration Formulas.
Appendix II: Computation of Principal Moments of Inertia.
Appendix III: Additional Data For the Ellipse.
Appendix IV: Proof that Infinitesimal Rotations Are Vectors.
Projects.
Answers.
Index.
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